Bernard Eder often remarked self-ironically that he wasn't a painter at all, but a storyteller, his stories  spring from his dreams and find their continuation on the painting grounds.

At the art academies in Paris, Munich and Vienna, Bernhard Eder developed a fascination for the old masters of the Renaissance and their painting technique. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch, the tempera painting by Pieter Bruegel and Sandro Botticelli, Eder developed his own distinctive style in the late 1960s, which he remained true to until its end in 2017.